One person was injured when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded near the Rikkos Police Post in Jos on Friday.

Captain Salisu Mustapha, spokesman for the Military Special Task Force (STF), maintaining security in Plateau, said in a statement in Jos, that that the explosion affected the police post and three other houses.

Also affected by the blast that happened on Layin-Walin Street, Jos was one vehicle, the statement said.

It said that the injured person, one Alhaji Abubakar Adamu, had been taken to hospital, while investigation was ongoing on the incident.

“But the area is calm and people are going about their normal activities,’’ the STF spokesman said. (NAN)